Kia Corthron

Awards and Honors

The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter is the winner of the
2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Kia Corthron was the 2017 Bread Loaf Shane Stevens Fellow in the Novel.

For her body of work for the stage, she received the Otto Award for Political Theatre in 2016; in 2014 she was honored with the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, and the Simon Great Plains Playwright Award (Honored Playwright); and in 2012 she received the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is the 2017 resident playwright of Chicago's Eclipse Theatre, which is producing three of her plays.